Brownstein's Quotes

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic. — Carrie Brownstein

We would go out and play these songs and people could interpret them however the hell they wanted. — Carrie Brownstein

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do. — Carrie Brownstein

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres. — Carrie Brownstein

I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S. — Carrie Brownstein

I think proteins are really good for your brain. And your brain is where comedy comes from. — Carrie Brownstein

At nineteen, you can make out for hours, that goal-less, amorphous melting into someone else. — Carrie Brownstein

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true. — Carrie Brownstein

Nostalgia is so certain: the sense of familiarity it instills makes us feel like we know ourselves, like we've lived. — Carrie Brownstein

It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous. — Carrie Brownstein

You can't bury a part of yourself that's so innate to who you've been, even if it's not for the sake of anything other than a pure enjoyment of it. — Carrie Brownstein

I think hypochondria always plays a part in the healthcare landscape. — Carrie Brownstein

I got kind of tired of playing, I think. But I think it will be part of my life again, maybe. — Carrie Brownstein

Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes me out of my brain. — Carrie Brownstein

What I value most in new music is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that. — Carrie Brownstein

I never want to contribute to the corrosiveness of wanting someone to stay hidden. — Carrie Brownstein

I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself. — Carrie Brownstein

We want our parents to be the norm from which we deviate. — Carrie Brownstein

The inexplicable is its own form of freedom. Belonging is not a form of restriction. We can't name the feeling but we can sing along. — Carrie Brownstein

I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself. — Carrie Brownstein

You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity. — Carrie Brownstein

I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind. — Carrie Brownstein

I was a sprinter - there were no long-term goals, — Carrie Brownstein

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty. — Carrie Brownstein

They were like really loud librarians. And as the audience, you better shut the hell up because you're in the library of rock right now. When — Carrie Brownstein

I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways. — Carrie Brownstein

to be a fan is to know that loving trumps being beloved. — Carrie Brownstein

With music, I get to a much darker place. Where I'm able to go with 'Portlandia' has a wider range, but also a brighter range. — Carrie Brownstein

It turns out I'm not very good at working with a traditional boss. — Carrie Brownstein

I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever. — Carrie Brownstein

There are foods you should avoid. For me, sugar is a no. Because it gives me a spike and then a crash. — Carrie Brownstein

From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly. — Carrie Brownstein

I love coffee. I love a midday espresso on set, just for the energy. — Carrie Brownstein

Sometimes I think that the best you can ever feel in a photo shoot is like a sexy clown. — Carrie Brownstein

People are wearing fleece, which is a hard fabric to be angry in. — Carrie Brownstein

Yet I felt it was unfair to be labeled when I had yet to find a label for myself, and when binary, fixed identities held no meaning or safety for me. — Carrie Brownstein

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved. — Carrie Brownstein

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music. — Carrie Brownstein

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty. — Carrie Brownstein

Books grounded me, helped me to feel less alone. — Carrie Brownstein

I have no desire to play music unless I need music. — Carrie Brownstein

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world. — Carrie Brownstein

Nothing is as nice as plugging in your guitar and turning up the volume really loud, just seeing what kind of beautiful noise you can make with it. — Carrie Brownstein

I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young. I've never quite been able to shake that. — Carrie Brownstein

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring. — Carrie Brownstein

I don't want to mislead people. — Carrie Brownstein

I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music. — Carrie Brownstein

We felt there was a creeping tepidness in music, a cloying softness, as if music were only a salve, not an instigator. It's — Carrie Brownstein

I like to take things incrementally, and strive for something that feels more attainable. — Carrie Brownstein

At that age I thought apartments were built specifically to house the single or the newly single, a divorce dormitory of sorts. — Carrie Brownstein

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music. — Carrie Brownstein

The internet is just a scary place. It's better to just go to the doctor. Don't let Google get inside your head. It will do bad things to you. — Carrie Brownstein

If you always want to look relevant, just be CGI-prepared. — Carrie Brownstein

Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own. — Tama Janowitz

I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects. — Carrie Brownstein

These new bands sound like Gang of Four - if Gang of Four sucked. — Carrie Brownstein

I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under the surface. — Carrie Brownstein

I need a template of a template — Carrie Brownstein

I think you should be prepared for a green-screen CGI at all times. — Carrie Brownstein

Just invest in apps. Just download apps and then pay yourself the dividend. — Carrie Brownstein

To become a fan of something, to open and change, is a move of deliberate optimism, curiosity, and enthusiasm. — Carrie Brownstein

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music. — Carrie Brownstein

I'm kind of a hermit - it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect. — Carrie Brownstein

It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating. — Carrie Brownstein

(Like a lot of middle-class kids, I needed my punk rock and rebellion underwritten by my parents.) — Carrie Brownstein

I've learned to really enjoy video games. It's really toxic to have in your house, because it's really distracting. — Carrie Brownstein

I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary. — Carrie Brownstein

The notion of "female" should be so sprawling and complex that it becomes divorced from gender itself. — Carrie Brownstein

For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis. — Carrie Brownstein

There is a direness in the construction of safety, in the telling of theretofore untold stories. — Carrie Brownstein

It was about knowing you were going to be underestimated by everyone and then punishing them for those very thoughts. — Carrie Brownstein

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce. — Carrie Brownstein

It's so nice to have a band name you don't have to explain. — Carrie Brownstein

Plus, it seemed inconceivable to give someone money for a job we were capable of doing. — Carrie Brownstein